. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. ;;^;i^:i^^:^^ Fig XCVI. Fig. XCVI.*—iEchmeainlgms.—Paxton. [ TACCACE^. 149 Order XLIII. TACCACE^.—Taccads. Taccese, Pm^. Ikliq. Hcenk. 1. 149. (1830) ; Bartl. Ord. Nat. 82. (1830).—Taccaceje, Key &c 70(l^Zb) ; Ed. prior, ccxxxix.; Endl. Gen. l\in.— 3Ieistier, p. i02. Diagnosis.—NarcisscdEndoge7is ivitli tuhular half-tripetaloideousflowers andfleshij albumen. Large perennial herbs, \vith a tuberous root. Leaves all radical, stalked, undividedor pedatifid, the segme
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. ;;^;i^:i^^:^^ Fig XCVI. Fig. XCVI.*—iEchmeainlgms.—Paxton. [ TACCACE^. 149 Order XLIII. TACCACE^.—Taccads. Taccese, Pm^. Ikliq. Hcenk. 1. 149. (1830) ; Bartl. Ord. Nat. 82. (1830).—Taccaceje, Key &c 70(l^Zb) ; Ed. prior, ccxxxix.; Endl. Gen. l\in.— 3Ieistier, p. i02. Diagnosis.—NarcisscdEndoge7is ivitli tuhular half-tripetaloideousflowers andfleshij albumen. Large perennial herbs, \vith a tuberous root. Leaves all radical, stalked, undividedor pedatifid, the segments pinuatifid and entire, with curved parallel veins. Stipules Fig. XCVII. Flowers placed on the top of a simpletaper or angular fiu-rowed scape, m umbels,0, regular, siuTounded by undi^ided bractsforming an involucre. Perianth adherent,^^ ith a cyhndincal ribbed tube; Umb petaloid,the petals rather the longest, 6, inserted into the base of the^-?si<^AC;;^;^^p^^^^7^ *^<, ^aLJ^ segments of the perianth, distinct; filaments \i ^T~S^SSr-/ -*^-x x dilated, petaloid, hooded at the apex ; an- thers inserted Ijelow the pouits of theirfilaments in their concavity, 2-celled, thecells distinct. Ovary composed of 3 con-nate carpels, 1 -celled, or half 3-celled, mth3 parietal polyspermous placentae ; ovulesascending and anatropal, or horizontal and amphitropal ; styles 3, connate ; stigmasconnate at the base, radiating, 2-lobed. Pei-icarp berried, indehiscent, 1-celled, or half3-celled, many-seeded. Seeds Imiate or somewhat ovate, striated. Albumen placed inside the albumen in the region of the hilum, or remote from it.
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